Authored: June 18, 2015

I watch the rain fall against the window on this train carriage
Around me is a sea of people
So close and yet so far from each other
Each one of us is a sea and our words and our look is the shore
To the other person
I skim over the news stories of the news feed
And a wave of dissonance washes over me.
I look up at a person sitting near me and watch this man read the newspaper
The front page roars a headline to catch any attention
I read of a hate crime where a lone gunman kills people of colour in a church
And this gunman may be a Christian, where is his faith?
I read of a man who earlier today punched a baby in the face at Central
I skim over the latest in our sordid poor excuse of politics, where everything has become spin.
The rain falls against the carriage windows,
My attention is drawn to a couple in loving embrace, smiling and playing with each other, lost in their own world of worlds.
It is this that gives me hope. Within the storm of negativity
Is the presence of Love.
Stronger than hatred, superior to negativity
The pages of humanity have been written with chapters of blood and mayhem.
But imagine,
Imagine a movement, beings and words
Of Hope, Of Love and of Acceptance
It begins with us, the people.

I watch the rain fall against the window of this train carriage
My stop is soon.
I will stand and walk out of this carriage at my stop,
To wait until the doors open and I step out into the fresh cold air
Feel the rain on my face.
To feel a wave of Resonance, wash over me
To feel. To just Be.